Donnie
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Fail in that. I could knock a stump vice into the wood and just use that.
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Got this old worktop, quite a few of them actually. But this ones scrap as it’s got a hole in it from a sink anyways… Was thinking of mounting it to the tailgate and mounting a vice on it for sharpening chainsaws and filing rakers etc whenever I’m near the motor which isn’t very often just thought it’d be handier than bent over a stump… Chalk mark on tailgate is where that worktop would fit when cut. Any other suggestions or photos would be grand
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Picked this up for nothing. Anybody got any suggestions for 11.5mm wire? and straps etc. I’ve shackels etc.
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It takes a real cutter to know how to do that
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Windy. Rate my stump Hardest Sitka I’ve cut in a long time pushing a dull chain to finish the tree is never fun. Cuts going all roads
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I’ve no time for driving about the country, cutting and then sharpening at home. I sharpen in the wood on company time 😂
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Tried Vallorbe. Oregon. Husky. They’ve too much metal almost like a step in the cutter that you need to file away.
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Bloody expensive on reels though for sure
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Old topic but may as well revive it rather than make a new one. I’m down to my last few 24 inch chains and I’ve been using EXL. On my Huskys. Absolute nightmare on the first sharpen, ruins files. Can go through 1-2 files on the first sharpen and after that it is fine. Anybody else have the same bother? I am thinking of getting LPX if I can get it next time. EXL seems to be dull out the box anyways, it’s painful to work with
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If anything the line will be going to the farm at the end of a dead end road.
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Thanks man. For 40 quid I got a couple hundred and a mug as well and a few pens. Was 10 quid off free postage which was a fiver… Great financial logic spend 10 to save 5
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I’ll not bother packing a lunch then if it’s included on site!
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I won’t be using a guard either just goggles and a visor
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Not on Sunday please mate…… don’t. 😂
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Again, I’m used to forestry rates which is also back breaking type of stuff. I’d imagine this kind of job to be not as hard? Not sure if I am selling myself short but I don’t want to come across as very steep in price either when I am trying to get more work out of the place. They are also keen on having me split the logs with my road towable, mulch/strim the woodland and fell any small saplings.
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About to buy this before anyone has any better ideas for mulching around a woodland, little branches and bushes/weeds etc.
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How do you mean?
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My Mrs made it on some website. It’s simple and not too flash, it’ll do for now. I did remove the strimming bullet point and change things around on the final part but I think it seems good enough.
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That would be quite a lot of trees… Maybe I’ll just wear a balaclava or a pair of the Mrs tights over my head and do a runner if all else fails. It’s only the top of the tree that may or may not whip it. Will have a further look on Saturday. Going to bring my brushcutter there on the day so if all else fails I can still cut what’s not too risky and mulch all of the forest floor for her kids to play and still make a rate. Put my day rate in at 250 plus VAT which is 30 more than I’d get for cutting on harvesting sites. lemme know what you think. I don’t want to over charge and I also don’t want to sell myself short but this domestic/small woodland forestry stuff is still new to me.
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For the leaner one I may (if I get the tirfor off of my pal and find rope suitable for it I will hopefully get a line up and over the tree maybe and winch the top/snap it out. Or get a lend of a polesaw and cut it higher up and it might drop a bit nicer.
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I’ll tell her to get a climber for that part of the job then, I’m starting on Saturday. Got one within the wood that’s grew up out of a banking on a 45 degree angle and I think it may be close to the line by the time that I drop it. I’ll have a shot on Saturday and see what happens.
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What is the DNO?
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If it’s a powerline that kinda changes things. The tree is dead as hell so I don’t know if anyone would be keen to climb it? Barks falling off it and going that dusty/crispy way.
